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The Criminal Behaviour of Young Fathers

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, finds that very young fathers who have their first child while they are still teenagers subsequently commit less crime if the child is a boy than if it is a girl. This then has a spill over effect on other young men of a similar age living in the same neighbourhoods as the young father. The research was covered on the British press.

Professor Dustmann and Dr Otten are coauthors in the first report in CEPR's Monitoring International Integration series, Europe's Trust Deficit: Causes and Remedies. They analyse the roots of the decline in trust in both national and European political institutions, as reflected in the rise of populist politics.

External Research Fellow

Daniel Miller is professor of material culture studies at the department of anthropology at UCL. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He obtained his BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has given many prestigious lectures such as The State of the World lecture for the Gulbenkian in Lisbon and the Morgan Lecture series published by the University of Chicago Press. He is the author and editor of many books based on ethnographic research in India, Trinidad and London on topics ranging from the impact of mobile phones on poverty to the nature of consumption. He has a forthcoming book with Polity Press on the subject of Slovak au pairs and their experiences in London written in collaboration with Zuzana Burikova. Currently he is also writing a book with Mirca Madianou of Cambridge University based on a study of Filipino nurses and domestic workers and the impact of new media on their ability to parent their left behind children in the Philippines. This follows fieldwork with the parents in the UK and with their children in the Philippines.